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Sin City 2: A Dame To Kill For:
What's it about?
Belated follow-up to 2005's smash hit comic-to-film success from Robert Rodriguez and Sin City creator Frank Miller. Tales, new and old, interweave throughout the seedy bars, secluded mansions, and dangerous alleyways. Dazzlingly dangerous dames, brutally violent men, corrupted officials, gamblers, voyeurs, thugs-for-hire, strippers and gunslingers ... all can be found on the streets of (Ba)sin City.
Who would I recognise in it?
Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rosario Dawson, Bruce Willis, Eva Green, Powers Boothe, Dennis Haysbert, Ray Liotta, Jaime King, Christopher Lloyd, Jamie Chung, Jeremy Piven, Juno Temple.
Great/Good/Alright/Shite?
Nine years was arguably too long to wait for a sequel, particularly as initial rumours suggested a sequel in 2006, and expectations were running high. The original film was extremely well received, so perhaps expectations got the collective best of some reviewers and audience members. Of course a sequel isn't going to be as breath-takingly original as the first - this is more of the same, you know what to expect, it wasn't going to become something different. However, comparing the established tales of Miller (e.g. the titular A Dame To Kill For) with his newly-penned chapters, you can't help but feel something's missing from the Miller of today. Whatever that something is, it's hard to pin down ... but the new material, while continuing to do much of what worked before, still lacks a certain something...

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